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linkivo Version 2.5.7

Step 11 of 13

App lock and locked folders

A PIN for the app, and a separate code for locked folders.

1Where it is

  • Settings > Security has two rows: App lock and Folder Lock (Vault). Each opens a popup with all its settings.
  • If the app lock is on, the PIN is asked to open a popup. After you confirm it, popups open again without asking for 30 seconds.

2App lock

  • Turn it on and choose a 4 to 8 digit PIN (the keypad then takes exactly that many digits). Auto lock closes the app after it has been away; the default is 2 minutes. The PIN gate asks again before sensitive actions.
  • Forgot the PIN? Tap Forgot PIN on the lock screen or on any PIN gate, sign in again and choose a new one; your data is kept. A guest who forgets it must erase the device data.
  • For extra privacy, also use your device's own app lock, for example with Linkivo installed as an app.

3Locked folders (accounts)

  • Turn on Folder Lock in its popup: confirm your PIN, choose a symbol (@ # % $ !) and a six-digit code. The code looks like %000000 (use your own digits); % is the default symbol.
  • Lock a folder from its menu in Library. Until you unlock, it and its links are in no list, search, history, Random, Stats or export, and the server keeps them closed too.
  • Unlock by typing the symbol and code into the search box and pressing Enter. The page shows the same "Nothing found" as for any search; a right code plays a small unlock animation inside it, a wrong one shows nothing more. Text that starts with a code symbol is never kept in recent searches. While unlocked, a Lock card at the top of Menu and Settings locks the folders again at once.
  • Unlocked folders work like any other and show a small lock icon. They lock again when the app locks, when you reload the app, after the time you chose (2, 5, 10, 20, 30 or 60 minutes), or, with "until I close the app", when the app was away for 2 minutes.
  • A wrong code looks like an ordinary search and still counts toward the wrong-PIN lockout.
  • Remove lock in a folder menu takes it back to the normal library. Locked folders can not be import, quick-add or share targets.